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however, its MO Rules Of Naming (MORON) are faulty. We have collected this parasol mushroom from this very same site since 2007. Every year it looks slightly different. This year, Oluna says, it looks more like a Chlorophyllum olivieri, but I voted her over. We have collections from this spot from several years, and at the end the Consensus (I would call it Nonsensus) should not propose the name without seeing those collections.
If you think that this is yet another imperfection of the MO system, I have been fighting it from the very moment you (and other BAMS) introduced me to MO. Never mind, the MO gurus take my suggestion and comments as insults. Adolf

on the other hand Adolf, the sighting clearly shows brunneum winning the name game. we all know that sometimes there is debate on some of these IDs, esp. for species that have close morpho look-a-likes, or with a photo that might be ambiguous.

I mean, come on, rachodes was YOUR original proposal. it evolved with more thought and observation.

and then, sometimes the voting is used to tweak the system or tweak individuals.

that’s the human aspect of our MO myco-science.

I am shocked, shocked that Alan would give rachodes his strongest vote here, despite the fact of that abrupt bulb. I am sure that he knows better than all of us tho, and perhaps can see deeper due to his x-ray vision. or something.

I’d just let it go. It shows that we are human, and fallible and sometimes stubborn and even gasp! provocative. Humans, such a caution.

In the end, this is a photo of brunneum. The rest is just background noise.

to Chlorophyllum brunneum_ when I got this strange message: Sorry, someone else has given this their strongest positive vote. You are free to propose alternate names, but we can no longer let you delete this name. Excellent example of the strange Mushroom Observer Rules Of Naming! Adolf